Primary bacterial infection of the myocardium

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Wasi, Faisal ^a   Shuter, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscess; Bacterial; Infection; Myocarditis; Myocardium; Review

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOCARDITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HEART MUSCLE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYOCARDITIS; PATHOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

HUMANS; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 1542673364     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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